Below, student used ESRI's Live Earthquake Maps site, which gives them access to near-real-time seismic data for the entire Earth.

Above left, is the seismic map of the entire Earth with the recent earthquakes depicted by colored circles. The students recognized that nearly all of the earthquakes occurred on plate boundaries. To the right, they zoomed in on the United States.

Above left, students checked out the seismic activity in California during that week. They were especially interested in the Mammath Lakes region, and, on the right, Southern California.